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Sheep market participation of rural households in Western Ethiopia
(Academic Journals, 2012)
Sheep production is an integral part of the subsistence crop-livestock based livelihoods of the Ethiopian highlands and plays a crucial role in economic development and poverty reduction. This study analyzed determinants ...
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Price co-integration analyses of food crop markets: The case of wheat and teff commodities in Northern Ethiopia
(Academic Journals, 2012)
This paper examines the role of market price information dissemination on the co-integration of grain market prices in Northern Ethiopia. Results are based on bi-monthly retail price data on wheat and teff commodities ...
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Interdependence of smallholders' net market positions in mixed crop-livestock systems of Ethiopian highlands
(Academic Journals, 2012)
Using simultaneous-equation models, this paper examines whether there is interdependence between smallholder?s net market positions in crop and live animal markets under mixed crop-livestock system. Household level data ...
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Outlook of future climate in northwestern Ethiopia
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2012)
Climate change is described as the most universal and irreversible environmental problem facing the planet Earth. While climate change is already manifesting in Ethiopia through changes in temperature and rainfall, its ...
Newsletter / Bulletin
SIMLESA Bulletin: highlights
(CIMMYT; ACIAR, 2012)
During 19-23 March 2012, over 200 researchers, policy makers, donors, seed specialists, and NGO representatives from Africa and Australia gathered in Arusha, Tanzania, for the second SIMLESA Annual Regional Planning and ...
Newsletter / Bulletin
SIMLESA Bulletin: highlights
(CIMMYT; ACIAR, 2012)
“Increasing Sustainable Agricultural Production in Mozambique through Drought Tolerant Maize and Conservation Agriculture” is a USAID-supported initiative bringing together two key components of CIMMYT’s work: Breeding for ...
Newsletter / Bulletin
SIMLESA Bulletin: highlights
(CIMMYT; ACIAR, 2012)
The first planning and inception meeting of the ‘Identifying socioeconomic constraints to and incentives for faster technology adoption: Pathways to sustainable intensification in Eastern and Southern Africa’ (Adoption ...
Annual Report
SIMLESA Program Annual Report July 2011–June 2012
(CIMMYT; ACIAR, 2012)
SIMLESA is a four-year (July 2010-December 2013) program funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). The aim of SIMLESA program is to improve farm-level food security, in the context ...
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Races of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici with combined virulence to Sr13 and Sr9e in a field stem rust screening nursery in Ethiopia
(American Phytopathological Society (APS), 2012)
North American durum lines, selected for resistance to TTKSK (Ug99) and related races of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici in Kenya, became susceptible in Debre Zeit, Ethiopia, suggesting the presence of stem rust races ...